Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-29

though within few years il has beer
entered into by few of the other sex
Several women in this city have offices
in different buildings and employ q
large number OF operators. One woman
has six Offices in six different buildings
employs about fifteen young women
on salaries, and has connected with hel
hundreds Of stcnographers and opera
tors who work by the piece. These
operators are supplied from a large
training-schoo connected with the
business. They spend from three
TO six months in the school
room. They are then taken up IN tao
business Office and put under an Office
training. Most of them remain IN
business Offices until they are either re-
ceived in that business or placed IN
other positions. After this Office train
ing they command excellent salaries
| The woman referred 10 was obliged to
! commence this Office training in order
| TO have operators for her own Offices
| A large number Of persons are rushing
into the type-writing copying business,
but as two thirds of them are poorly
trained out of every 500 who attempt to
learn it there are probably not more than
fifty good, well.trained instructors. At
the present time the large type writer
Offices in this city are unable to get ex-
pcrts enough to supply the demand.
Hundreds of people who have man
aged to scrape together enough money
to buy n typewriter have advertised
themselves as instructors in type
writing, and as a result many poor
girl, have spent all the money they
could borrow or obtain in any other
Way in fitting themselves for the bust
ness. and have afterwards in applying
for work discovered that both time and
money have been thrown away, and
that they were utterly unprepared for
work.
AN EVENING WITH A KING.
Now that Queen Kapiolani has left
our shores after enjoying her fort
nights sojourn in New York III style
surprising even her experiences in
Boston and San Francisco. there is TO
improperly in mentioning the fact
that her royal spouse, King kalakaua,
who is said to be inappreciatige OF her
merits, spent some very festive days
when in this city about dozen years
ago. There would, in truth, have been
no imprudence in speaking Of the fact
even while she was here, as she IS all
too well aware of his rcnown us "A roy
sterinC blade in Honolulu, where he
reigns King Of the Cannibal Islands.
| sTent an evening in company with
kalakaua among n group of friends,
when he was in this city, the only
evening / ever crossed legs under the
table with a King. He quaffed with
clee. moderation, and dignity, some
times through straw, the fragrant
beverages that were mixed for ms pleas
IRE. and he mingled the moments with
sales and good hum0r that gave zest
to his companionSlip. | venture the
remark that be is the most democratic
Of kings, though, as | have said, my
acquaintance with royalty has been
limited TO himself in course Of the
evening ] found myself alone with him
1T table. over which blent the smoke
of our cigars. | drew ont the King
as lie fell intoa thoughtful mood and be
cane talkatiye. A few queslions&bout
his country put him at his best III few
moments. His discourse Was q revela-
ton and q surprise to me. | found him
to he a man of many accomplishments
and something of "A savant. His con
versation was full of knowledge and in
teiligence. not only regarding affairs,
hut also other matters in the realm of
science. He spoke of the natural his
tory Of the seven islands over which he
reiens. and with which he had the ia
miliarity that could come only through
acute observation and study. lie spoke
of the native race to which he belonged,
and interested me especially with an
idea which he developed, that
the race was not Of Asiatic ori-
Gin, hut had immigrated or drift
I'd at some unknown period Of
time from the west coast of Mexico, and
belonged, perhaps, 10 the primitive
stock from which sprang the Joltecs or
Aztecs. he pointed out certain varial
analogies, traced the relation of certain
customs, and refeTredt to some traditions
among the people of his native isle.
He showed, as he proceeded, a remark
able knowledge of cthnolOgy, linguls-
tics. and customs, and talked like a
scholar as well as a gentleman from first
to last.
In short, / found King Kalakaua to
he not only long-headed politician,
but man of varied accomplishments.
So that bis notoriety as roysterer ought
to be supplemented by another reputa-
ton which i found him deserving OF.
THE WOES OF AIILLIOSAIREs.
JAY Gould was not an object Of Sc
rcnity, tranquility, and ease when the
Government Investigators had HIM on
the rack the other day. He announced
at the beginning that he would have to
speak in low tone, as he was suffer
ing from neuralgia. Bat it was not
neuralgia that disturbed him. When
he entered the room there were no
traces of it, and as he sat for half an
hour waiting his turn he was appa-
rently as we'll man as could be found.
But when he sank into the chair and
realized that he was in for rigid III
vestigation at last, one that would lay
his methods bare and expose the deal
that had added millions to his fortune.
his hands shook, and his first answers
were given with the half-choked utter
ance that can never he mistaken for
anything else than fear.
/ believe that there is more deception
about the happiness of the average
millionaire than the most skeptical of
us imagine. Last Sunday 1 went to a
Baptist church presided over by an old
fashioned clergyman whom | heard first
when / was six years old. He isn't ex-
actly the fashion, but he breaches ser
mons Of the good old orthodox style
that are to me more acceptable than the
vain frippery and resonant conceit
of tue two preachers who are Just
now The idols of the town. The usher
took me half way up the aisle, and |
sat down behind man who was per
baps forty-eight yearso age. He wore
the conventional frock coat. was
struck first by the magnificent contour
Of his head. 1t might have been
modelled after that Of the greatest oil
the Caesars. But he looked very much